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Jabberwocky In ActionScript

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the lighter-side dept.

VeryVito writes "You can tell Flash programming is beginning to grow up: It's not just for designers anymore, but for real, honest-to-goodness tech geeks. As evidence, I present The ActionScript Jabberwocky. Enjoy!" It's almost as good as reading it in the original Klingon.

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  1. Uhh by lightdarkness · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm a tad confused, are we supposed to find this funny?

  2. The original... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...made more sense.

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    Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  3. Okay, but does it compile? by Vo0k · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And if so, what does it do? I guess not much of an useful thing.
    I think the Obfuscated C Code Contest poems in C were better, as they at least had to compile to something useful.

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    Anagram("United States of America") == "Dine out, taste a Mac, fries"
  4. True geeks? by dmayle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can tell Flash programming is beginning to grow up

    Quite the contrary. I'll believe it's beginning to grow up when I see a non-Macromedia plugin, and someone's ported DeCSS to it... ;)

  5. Re:Dodgy URLs on Slashdot? by mr_z_beeblebrox · · Score: 5, Insightful

    May I please ask, for the benefit of those of use whose web URLs are logged at work

    Might I ask that to avoid being a luser you look to see what you are clicking on and don't depend on the admins to hold your hand? Seriously, that attitude is WHY viruses and trojans spread (albeit different circumstances)

  6. Re:Actionscript login systems by Jotham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So basically...

    Flash allows me to use if statements
    Some people use this to write if (answer=="Password") {...
    therefore I should be wary of flash

    And this is modded as Insightful?

    Just another, "You can do stupid things in Flash, therefore Flash is bad", post. Wouldn't the better lesson to be learnt be, don't trust client-side code as security.

    PS. Drag a C/C++ program in notepad and you can see all it's ASCII strings too...

  7. Re:The tide has changed by PhoenixFlare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but isn't Flash mostly an anachronism these days?

    Only if you hold to the attitude that if you don't like or find something useful, then nobody else could possibly get any value out of it.

    Which seems to be all too common around here, sadly.

    Flash can be a great tool for animation, games, and even site navigation if used properly.